Cognitive Archaeology, Body Cognition, and the Evolution of Visuospatial Perception offers a multidisciplinary and comprehensive perspective on the evolution of the visuospatial ability in the human genus. It presents current topics in cognitive sciences and prehistoric archaeology, to provide a bridge between evolutionary anthropology and neurobiology.
This book explores how body perception and spatial sensing may have evolved in humans, as to enhance a “prosthetic capacity” able to integrate the brain, body, and technological elements into a single functional system. It includes chapters on touch and haptics, peripersonal space, parietal lobe evolution, somatosensory integration, neuroarchaeology, visual behavior, attention, and psychometrics.
Cognitive Archaeology, Body Cognition, and the Evolution of Visuospatial Perception represents an essential resource for evolutionary biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and neuroscientists who are interested in the role of body perception and spatial ability in human cognition.
Somatosensation and body perception: the integration of afferent signals in multisensory cognitive processes
págs. 3-23
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págs. 51-83
The body in the world: tools and somato-centric maps in the primate brain
Banty Tia, Rafael Bretas, Yumiko Yamazaki, Atsushi Iriki
págs. 85-107
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Body-tool integration: past, present and future
págs. 131-150
The evolution of the parietal lobes in the genus Homo: the fossil evidence
págs. 153-179
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Handling prehistory: tools, electrophysiology, and haptics
págs. 241-262
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Psychometrics, visuospatial abilities, and cognitive archaeology
Emiliano Bruner, María Silva Gago, Annapaola Fedato, Manuel Martín Loeches, Roberto Colom
págs. 279-304
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